People of the Book Club

Tuesday, January 14, 2020 •17 Tevet 5780

7:00 PM - 8:00 PMB'nai Zion

The "People of the Book" group will discuss the book: The Plateau by Maggie Paxson. In a remote pocket of Nazi-held France, ordinary people risked their lives to rescue many hundreds of strangers, mostly Jewish children. Was this a fluke of history, or something more? Anthropologist Maggie Paxson, certainties shaken by years of studying strife, arrives on the Plateau to explore this phenomenon: What are the traits that make a group choose selflessness?